Many people feared that the governor would use the troops to arrest the leaders of the Free State government.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

He said it would be best to let the people themselves decide if New Mexico would be a slave or free state.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Most of the cases have been found in farm workers in two provinces: Free State and Northern Cape.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Fighting between the two sides almost began when a Free State man was killed by a pro-slavery man.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

One part of the compromise permitted California to enter the Union as a free state.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Free State settlers gathered in the town of Lawrence and organized a defense force.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

The pro-slavery governor and the Free State governor agreed to hold an emergency meeting.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

The truce did not last long. In the weeks that followed, a number of attempts were made to stop or arrest the leaders of the Free State government.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

President Pierce said the actions of the Free State Party seemed revolutionary.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Clay proposed that California join the Union as a free state.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He would make the new territory of California a free state.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

The mid-Atlantic state of Maryland is called the Free State.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

It made California a free state.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

They said the new state governments of the South would not treat blacks as free and equal citizens.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighters opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

answered Aylmer,surprised. The mind is in a sad state when sleep cannot control its ghosts and allows them to break free with their secrets.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

At the same time,groups in the North helped free-state settlers move there,too.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

They wanted a vote before too many free-state settlers moved in.

VOA: special.2009.04.30